Two months after Clemson’s Dabo Swinney publicly accused Pete Golding of tampering in a 20-minute rant, the Ole Miss coach recounted the acquisition of linebacker Luke Ferrelli from his perspective. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s two sides to every story,\u201d Golding said Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Ferrelli, a freshman linebacker from Cal, landed with Clemson via the transfer portal in early January. He began classes and team meetings. Then, 20 days later, he transferred to Ole Miss.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came on an official visit right prior to the Fiesta Bowl, and I told him, \u2018Hey, I want you to be our green-dot Mike, but right now, we’ve got a green-dot Mike. And that spot\u2019s not going to be available until, you know, we have one available,\u2019\u201d Golding recalled. <\/p>\n
That job belonged to TJ Dottery, a junior linebacker whose helmet featured a small green dot on the back, signifying he was the chosen one with a direct communicator in his helmet where he could listen to coaches on the sideline or in the booth. It was Dottery’s job to then communicate with the defense. <\/p>\n
That job became available weeks later, when the linebacker followed coach Lane Kiffin to LSU.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018But right now there ain\u2019t a spot available. So, if that spot becomes available, it\u2019s yours,’\u201d Golding continued. “It\u2019s a kid that wanted to be here, that we wanted to be here, that at the end of it, came open, and he\u2019s here, and we\u2019re happy to have him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Swinney, who compared the situation to \u2018having an affair on your honeymoon,\u2019 said he forwarded evidence to the NCAA. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you tamper with my players, I\u2019m going to turn you in. It\u2019s just that simple,\u201d Swinney said. \u201cI\u2019m not out to get anybody fired, but there has to be accountability and consequences for this type of behavior and total disregard for the rules.”<\/p>\n
NCAA vice president of enforcement Jon Duncan said in a statement at the time that the association \u201cwill investigate any credible allegations of tampering and expect full cooperation from all involved as required by NCAA rules.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two months later, no ruling has been made to suggest tampering was found.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to sit up here and use the podium as a grandstand,” Golding said. “That\u2019s why we have a compliance office.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two months after Clemson’s Dabo Swinney publicly accused Pete Golding of tampering in a 20-minute rant, the Ole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[318,331,7,49,48,2309],"class_list":{"0":"post-848049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116331809628650239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}